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21 | What mother was commended by Paul? | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 203097 | ||
Dear DLorddaughter :: Please try to avoid taking umbrage at the feedback your many questions have engendered. Words standing alone on a screen have a way of appearing stark and harsh at times. There is no way by which your correspondents are able to soften them with the warmth of a smile, the friendly clasp of a handshake, or the disarming sparkle in the eyes that brings loving animation of countenance. I do not believe, and beg you not to believe, that any of the respondents to your posts intended to convey a mean and unloving spirit, because I am convinced that none of them are in fact mean and unloving. We none of us always choose the right words to reflect our real thoughts and feelings, so perhaps in some of the responses you've received, the words betray the true meaning that the author intended. ...... Looking at the situation in retrospect, it becomes fairly easy to understand why it has been inferred that some of your questions had their generation in sources outside yourself. To cite two examples: your question (Post 196694) asked, "Who pleaded with God not to destroy a city?" My question is, unless you had read and knew the answer from your study of Scripture, how would you otherwise know that anyone pleaded with God to destroy a city? ...... The second question in the example is Post 203055 in which you ask, "What mother was commended by Paul?" Same situation: how did you know that Paul commended any mother? ...... Are you now better able to understand the concern of your Forum peers? It is not that there is any ban on asking Bible-based questions. On the contrary, it is basically a question-and-answer format that this web site uses. This is not the problem. The problem lies in the fact that your questions were constructed in a way that is very typical of "homework" questions -- questions that read as though they came straight from a textbook. And it is an unwritten code of the Forum, as it were, that Bible students should do their own homework -- should roll up their sleeves and dig in on their own and do their own research -- and not have someone else do it for them. In looking for an easy fix, they are not only being unfair to the teacher and their classmates, but they are being unfair especially to themselves. There is no magic yellow-brick road to learning. Studying is hard work and demands our best efforts, as the Scripture says, "Do your best to present yourself to God as one approved, a worker who has no need to be ashamed, rightly handling the word of truth" (2 Timothy 2:15, ESV). ..... An afterthought. You are most welcome to continue to study and learn with us, as together we seek to follow our Lord ever more nearly and to love Him ever more dearly. The hand of friendship and fellowship is most assuredly extended to you. --Hank | ||||||
22 | Ezekiel's Temple updated | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 203150 | ||
A thousand and one attempts might pay off for you, Doc. It worked for Scheherazade. --Hank | ||||||
23 | Specify religion Jesus Christ an angel. | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 203398 | ||
Wasn't it Bin Franklen who said "Hast makes wast"? And shouldn't "post-haste" be written "poste-hast"? --Hanke | ||||||
24 | Does it Really matter? | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 203450 | ||
Cheri :: The Bible tells us this: "Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch" (Genesis 6:14). ...... What I have done -- to quote you from your post -- is "I've simply stated what the Bible states, and that I've not seen where He has changed His mind about it." Even though there be some who teach that we should not build arks these days, what are we to do, take God's word or man's? ..... Still and all, though it is clear what the Bible says about ark building, I do find 2 Timothy 2:15 a bit troubling. But I won't fret about that. As you say, "I'll take God's word over man's in a heartbeat." ..... I'll go to Home Depot and buy a batch of gopher wood (if they still carry it) and start building my ark. How are you coming along with yours? --Hank | ||||||
25 | Please pray for the election | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 207718 | ||
Hello, Justme :: Thanks for your kind response and your re-evaluation of the situation with regard to using Study Bible Forum as a platform for making political statements. This being a presidential election year and our being faced, as we all of us are, with a highly charged contest, it is understandable that some if not most of us participants on SBF may find it sometimes difficult to restrain ourselves from speaking our minds on the subject, but restrain we must in order to comply with the aims and code of conduct of SBF as set down by our hosts, the Lockman Foundation. We simply cannot afford to allow this Forum to become a political battle ground, and there is a clear and present danger that that's what it would become if we opened all stops and relaxed all restraints. Again, thank you for your understanding and cooperative attitude. And of course, the caveat applies as much to me as it does to you and all other registrants of Study Bible Forum. Grace to you, my Missouri neighbor. --Hank | ||||||
26 | Clarification needed, Justme | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 207805 | ||
Hi again, Justme :: May I please offer a small correction of what obviously was a typo but which changes the meaning considerably? You wrote, "As Hank has so kindly reminded me that politics is a subject now allowed on SBF..." The word "now" properly should be "not." Isn't it remarkable how much difference a single word, yea, even a letter, can make? Or a comma. For example, "No tears will be in heaven." Insert a comma after no and you get "No, tears will be in heaven." Careful attention to detail, by the way, makes for a good argument in favor of an accurate, literal, word-for-word translation of God's word over a loose paraphrase. Now I must proofread with utmost care this little essay on attention to detail. How embarrassing it would be to make this post only to have someone point to a glaring mistake in it! Grace to you, Justme. --Hank | ||||||
27 | Clarification needed, Justme | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 207854 | ||
Justme :: Don't crawl in a hole, brother! If I crawled in a hole every time I made a mistake, I'd spend as much time underground as a mole. --Hank | ||||||
28 | What do we have as a conseqence of goda | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 208583 | ||
Hi, Brothers Steve and Jeff :: When thinking about God's incomparable grace and trying to describe it, amazing is an understatement, yes. It is a word that doesn't carry quite the oomph that it did back when the hymn "Amazing Grace" was written, the erosion accounted for partly because of overuse and misuse. To illustrate: Now and then I tune in on one of these drawn-out commericals -- called infomercials, I believe -- on cable TV. Just recently I viewed one of these on which the salesman was describing the glorious features of a food chopper of some sort. His constant claim was, "You'll be amazed." Now I can't possibly imagine myself being amazed by a plastic whopper-dopper chopper. And it wasn't just the chopper that was supposed to be amazing. The low price was also supposed to be amazing as well. So just how is the viewer supposed to think about this concept of amazing? Is he amazed by the grace of God on the one hand and equally amazed by the food chopper on the other? I cringe at the abuse that the English language has suffered in the last half century or so. ..... But I believe that the grace of God is truly amazing, in the best and highest sense of the word. Yet the word 'amazing,' like other words in our language, falls dismally short of the mark when it is applied to the mighty God and His attributes. Upon consulting my copy of Roget's Thesaurus, I found some 50 synonyms for 'amazing,' but found none that was truly adequate to describe or define the grace of God. Yet I am convinced that the regenerate believer knows in his heart what it is and what it has done in his life, even though he may fall short, as I do, of being able fully to express it adequately in words. I believe the grace of God is in a real sense akin to the "peace of God, which passeth all understanding" (cf Philippians 4:7). --Hank | ||||||
29 | God Punished New Orleans with Katrina | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 209357 | ||
jack5505 :: Who or what is the source of this material? A reminder to you, please: read the terms of use before posting to Study Bible Forum. --Hank | ||||||
30 | God Punished New Orleans with Katrina | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 209358 | ||
Val :: In my post 209308 on this thread I endeavored to make the point that questions on events such as the Katrina-New Orleans hurricane disaster tend to lead to speculation. And they invariably do. You admit in your post to Brad that what you wrote on the issue was your opinion. And opinion and speculation are at least close cousins if not identical twins. What makes this a Bible study forum is the study of the Bible. Dishing out opinions on any issue -- be it why hurricanes hurt and often kill people or why some dogs bite and others only bark -- is not Bible study. The central question, it seems to me, should not be "What is my opinion on thus and so?" but rather "What does the word of God teach on thus and so?" Opinions may be fun to read and even more fun to write, but they don't teach us very much, do they? --Hank | ||||||
31 | Church membership...a requirement? | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 209409 | ||
Good, sound post, Doc. I've been a follower of Christ, i.e., a Christian for well over 50 years and never been quite able to understand the thinking of anyone who claims to be a Christian but refuses to tie himself to the church, the body of Christ. My analogy may be corny and simplistic, but for me to say that I am a Christian and refuse to affiliate myself to the church, for whose life the Lord gave His, is unthinkable. It's like saying that I am a citizen of the United States but refusing to obey its laws, to pledge allegiance to its flag or to honor the Constitution upon which it was founded and according to which it is governed. ..... Speaking of the very early days of the church, Scripture says, "And the LORD ADDED to the CHURCH daily those who were being saved" (Acts 2:27, emphasis mine). Salvation is God's sovereign work. God Himself adds the regenerate to the church, the body of Christ. Scripture does not teach that church membership is an option for God's elect. It is thus quite impossible to be among Christ's redeemed without being a member of His body, the church, since Scripture plainly states that it is God who adds to the church those who are being saved. --Hank | ||||||
32 | God Punished New Orleans with Katrina | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 209437 | ||
Hi, Jack :: Wouldn't it also be fair to ask, "If Kim Clement is a true prophet, how did he get things wrong?" You see, there is no record in Scripture of a bona fide prophet, chosen by God Himself, ever being wrong. ..... The problem with self-proclaimed prophets, Jack, is this: If in fact they are true prophets and get their prophecies wrong even once, then that would mean that God didn't get it right when He inspired the prophet to prophesy. Thus we are faced with a choice. We must choose to believe the prophet who claims to be inspired by God or to reject him. If we choose to believe he is divinely inspired yet see clearly that his prophecy is simply untrue, what can we say then? That God made a boo-boo? Or do we amend our thinking about the prophet's claim and accept the obvious, that the prophet himself is bogus? Anyone with enough brass can claim to be a prophet. Those who are glitzy and gutsy enough to dazzle and deceive large numbers of people make pretty good money at it. --Hank | ||||||
33 | How many Gods | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 209869 | ||
92406 :: Are you a Jehovah's Witness? --Hank | ||||||
34 | interputer the main thought | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 210992 | ||
Dear Cheri: There are as you say 66 books in the Bible, but not all of them have a Chapter 3. Six of them have fewer than three chapters, viz. Obadiah, Haggai, Philemon, 2 John, 3 John, and Jude. Thus, in only 60 books is there a Chapter 3. This narrows the field of inquiry, but not by much. :-) --Hank | ||||||
35 | ... | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 212155 | ||
Dear Messenger : The revision of the 1901 edition of the American Standard Version had its genesis in the mind of one man, Dewey Lockman, a Baptist layman and wealthy citrus grower of La Habra, California. Being a businessman and not a Bible translator, he made no attempt to revise the ASV himself, but using mainly his own financial resources, which were considerable, Mr. Lockman engaged a team of respected and highly trained Bible scholars and translators and the project was launched from which emerged the New American Standard Bible. ........ So now, sir or madam, may I ask you why some several years later you take upon yourself, so you say, the task of revising the ASV of 1901? Do you somehow feel that the team of professional scholars who spent hour upon hour on the revision of the 1901 ASV in order to produce the NASB botched the job so badly that you decided to come along and fix it? ..... And this seems a fair question to ask you at this point: What insights do you have that you presume the team of translators did not have? And whence came your insights? What qualifies you to be able to revise the ASV and get it right? What's wrong with the NASB anyway? ....... The regular readers of this Forum are not ignorant of the tetragrammaton, YHWH. I question the appropriateness of devoting post after post to the topic you've introduced in view of the fact that much has already been said about it in the archives of this Forum. ...... By the way, you apparently misread a few points given in the Forum guidelines. You don't have to ask a question to create a post and you certainly are not expected to answer your own question. A post may be created by (1) asking a question, (2) answering someone else's question, or (3) writing a note or responding to one. --Hank | ||||||
36 | Sell what you have-give alms | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 212273 | ||
Flyman, the plethora of questions your posts have raised added to the minute details you are seeking overwhelm me, so I refrain from writing a word about all those individual trees until we've taken a peek at the whole forest. In your user profile you wrote of desiring God, of seeking a walk with Him, and mentioned that you hope to be guided in some way by your interaction with people of this Forum. Well may you be, but frankly that is not the place I'd pick to begin my search. You mention nothing of church attendance, but a conservative, orthodox local congretation having a conservative, orthodox pastor is the best place to hang your hat right now, I'd say. This Forum has a lofty aim to be sure, but church it isn't. You need to go to God's house, for which there is absolutely no substitute. And may I suggest that you in connection with your Bible stuy. stop inspecting the individual trees so minutely right now, and instead that you look first at the forest, the big picture. You need to fully understand what 2 Timothy 2:15 really means and learn how to do what it says to do. This knowledge comes about slowly and takes a lot of time. ...... Where you are "coming from" I think I know, because many years ago I believe I sounded much like you. You may come off as being argumentative perhaps, but I don't think that is your aim. Just lighten up a little and be paiient. You are not going to understand everything in the Bible....not ever. Friend, I've been a follower of Jesus Christ for almost 60 years and studied the Bible for the same length of time. I'm probably boasting to say that maybe I understand 10 per cent of it by now. Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Surrender your will to Him. That's the most important thing in life. --Hank | ||||||
37 | Sell what you have-give alms | Bible general Archive 4 | Hank | 212298 | ||
Flyman, my suggestions were chiefly about finding yourself a conservative church with a high view of God's word. Such a church is not likely to delete you! ..... Speaking of which, in my nearly eight years on Study Bible Forum I've observed that those who follow Forum guidelines religiously generally have no problem with their posts being deleted. You said nary a word about the pointers I tried to give you but seemed only concerned about your posts being deleted. Do you think that you are possibly being a mite egocentric in your approach to this Forum? --Hank | ||||||
38 | selling raffle tickets | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 157560 | ||
Dear pbp, the church of which I'm a member (First Baptist Church in a good-sized Arkansas city) does not engage in any such activities as selling raffle tickets whatever, and if it did, I would be strongly opposed to it. I would neither buy them nor sell them nor in any way promote the enterprise. In my view, the preferred way to dispose of the donated quilt would be to give it away to a needy person or family. And the way to raise money in a church is not by the employment of a raffle-ticket scheme or other questionable gimmick, but by the free-will offerings of its members. I see no harm whatever in your expressing your intense concern and honest misgiving about this activity to your pastor and other leaders of the church you attend. Participation in raffling is to play a game of chance with the hope and expectation of material gain. It is not giving but gambling. It is not good fiscal stewardship within the body of Christ. Moreover, for the parishioners who may be tempted to gamble, I see this practice as being a potential stumbling block in a brother's way. The church is never to follow the ways of the world but of Christ. --Hank | ||||||
39 | Number 216 | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 157721 | ||
Doc, being the scholar that I am, I've assigned my mind to the task of discovering the true meaning of the number 216. My research led me to a little copy of the New Testament, King James Version, which I've owned for some 60 years, since I was 10 years old. I turned to page 216 and counted down from the top of the page until I came to the 216th word. It was the word "may." Eureka! I exclaimed. That's it. The number 216 means "may." Moreover, for additional proof, as if any were needed, when one adds the components of 216, i.e., 2, 1, and 6, the answer is 9, and "may" is the 9th word in the verse, as well as being the 216th word on page 216. What more proof could anyone possibly ask for? ..... It's hard to describe the sensation I felt upon making this astounding discovery. The best I can do is compare it to the overwhelming wave of emotion that comes over one when he dips his finger in a pail of water and detects a distinctive sensory perception of wetness. ..... Now I recognize that some people will not agree with my findings when they engage in their own research. They may well find that the 216th word on page 216 of their New Testaments is not "may." But that in no way invalidates the fruits of my research nor diminishes the sheer force and unimpeachable truth of my discovery. All it means is simply that they are using the wrong copy of the New Testament. Mine is correct because it is mine. And it is THE King James Version, the same one Peter, Paul and Mary used. --Hank | ||||||
40 | Number 216 | Bible general Archive 3 | Hank | 157725 | ||
Whatever. If the singing group don't read the Bible, they should! --Hank | ||||||
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